Electric illuminated-sign apparatus.



A. O. SIEGEL. ELEGTRIC ILLUMINATED SIGN APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 9, 1011.

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A. 0. SIEGEL. ELECTRIC ILLUMINATED SIGN APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 9, 1911.

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I Mmwim "UNITED STATES PATENT ,oFFIoE- ABRAHAM O. .SIEGEL,

OF'NEW YORK, N Y.

ELECTRIC ILLUMINATED-SIGN APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

tain new and useful Improvenientsin Elec-.

tric Illuminated-Sign Apparatus, of which the following isa specification such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates-to what are known as electric illuminated Sign devices or aparatus and the invention consists in certain improvements in the constructlon of devices of this class whereby said construction is simplified "and the operation thereof made more effectual; a further object being to provide a sign device or apparatus of the class specified by means of which a brilliant and attractive result is prdduced and which may be used for the purpose of advertising various kinds and classes of articles for sale; and with these and other objects in View, the invention consists in an electric sign apparatus, constructed as hereinafter described and claimed. I

The invention is full disclosed in the fol. lowing specification, 0 which the accompa-- nying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are des-* ignated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which:

Figurejl is a front view of my improved electric sign device or apparatus; Fig-2 a diagrammatic view showing the apparatus and the method of wiring the same; Fig. 8 a partial horizontal section on theline 3-3 of Fig. 1 and on the line 3-3 of Fig. 4, and; Fig. 4 a back view of the apparatus with the back part of the casing removed, and with part of the construction broken away.

In the practice of my invention I provide a casing a which is preferably circular in.

form in vertical section and which comprises a drum a, a front plate a and a back plate a*,- said back plate being formed into or serving as a door and being hinged at a? and. provided with any suitable fastening device.

Mounted in the "casing a, in the form of construction shown, are two horizontal supports I) and c forming a large central space (i; a top space (1 and a bottom space Placed centrally on the support a is an upright support 6 in which is mounted one end of a shaft 7', the front'end portion of which is tubular inform and passes through the frontplate a of the casing a and has a bear mg therein at F.

Mounted on the shaft 1" and rotatable therewith is a disk g composed of insulating material and-the back side f ofwhich is provided with circular contact Patented Oct. 1,1912; Application filed December 9, 1911. Serial 664.802, i a

rings h and k arranged concentrically as' shown, and at one side of the support 6 and it-l.tl16 back of the disk 9 are two upright brush devices 2' and i which are adaptd to bear, respectively, on the contact rings h and 'h v The front side of the disk 9' is provided with two binding posts y' and j which con tact with the rings h and 7L2 and "connected. therewith are circuit wires and k which pass into the tubular-end of the shaft f as shown at f, and the front end of the shaftf is provided with radial t-ubular arms m with which are connected electric lamp sockets m having detachable incandescent electric bulbs m and the end of the tube 1 is also providedwith a lamp socket at having a detach able bulb m and with a reflector a and the wires 75 and 70 pass through the arms m and supply the electric current to the bulbs and n in the usual manner as clearly shown inFig.2. 7

The disk 9 is provided with a de'epcir cumferential groove 9 and mounted at the left of the shaft f is an electric motor 0 having a shaft 0 provided witha grooved wheel 0 on which and on the disk 9 is mounted a driving belt of.

On the support 6 is placed a battery 1), one pole of which is placed in electrical connection with the motor 0 by a wire p and a wire p connects the brushi with the motor 0, and another wire 32* connects the brush i with Qneterminal of a switch 77, V

and a wire 1- is connected with the other pole of the battery p and with the other tei' minal p of the switch p. It will beseejn that-the switch p is at the top of the casing may be placed in any desired position. The

a in the construction shown, but said switch, 1

front of the casing a is also provided with an annular flaring reflector s and, infpra'ca t-ice, any suitable advertisement may be theplate a asshuwn in Fig. 1.

placed on the frontof'the casing, oron" From 'ihc toregoifig description will be 35 in which the operative parts is closed the motor will be started and the current will pass from one pole of the battery, through the wire the switch 7), the Wire 7%, the brush 2', the ring it, the contact j,

5 the-'wire 7:, through the lamps m, of, m

and back through the wire la the contact j the ring 7L2, the brush. 2' the wire p through themotoro and back through the wire 7) "'to the battery and the shaft f, the disk I 10 the arms a, and thelamps m a together ment as an advertising device or a ppa alus,

will be understood that the same may be employed for various other purposes, such .1 as exhibiting pictures, and instead of using a single circuit as shown and described, two

circuits may he employedrand any suitable switch device may besubstituted for that shown and described herein and other changes in and modifications of the construction described may be made, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the 'spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

It Will also be understood that my invention is not limited. to

the use of the casing a, as a sign or display member of any kind may be employed and the other parts of the apparatus, including the motor 0 and battery ,2) maybe supported in any desired manner, the object of employing the casing are mounted being to make the device portable and capable or ueing placed in any desired position.

Hat ng fully described my invention, what I claim as ne and desire to secure 40 by Letters Patent, 1s:

1. 111 an electric display apparatus, :1 casing or support having a stationary display member at the front thereof, a tubular rotatable shaft mounted-centrally in said cas- 5 ing and passing forwardly through said display member-and provided infrontthereof with radial arms, a grooved disk mounted on said shaft within said casing and rotatable with said shaft and provided on its back surface with two concentric rings, brushes supported adjacent to said disl' and adapted to bear on said rings, binding posts connected with the front of said disk and in contact. with said rings, circuit wires connected with said binding posts and passing into said shaft. and forwardly therethrough and through said arms, electric lampsconnected wit-h'said arms and with the front end of said shaft, and means for turning gsaid disk and said shaft.

:2 In an electric display apparatus, a. casing orasu'pporthaving a stationary display inei'iiber at the front thereof, "l tubular rotatable shaft mounted centrally in said cas ing' and passing forwardly through said di play member and provided in frontlzheroct 'with radial arms, a grooved disk 1n n1nt .-d on said shaft within said casing and rotatable with said shaft and provided on its back surface with two concentric contact rings, brushes supported adjacent to said disk and adapted to bear on said rings, binding posts connected .with the front olsaid disk and in contact with said rings, circuit. wires connected with said landing, posts and passing into d shaft and 'lorwardly therethrough and through said arms, electric lamps connected with said arms and with the front end of said shaft, and means for turning said disk and said shaft, consisting" of a motor mounted in said casing and the shaft of which is provided with a pulley and a belt passing around said disk and said pulley.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention l have signed iny name in presence of the sul'iscribing witnesses this 8th day of December 1911.

ABRAHAM O. STEGEL. lVitnesses:

C. E. MULREAIQY, FRANK Gr. AT 

